Little Alchemists Club

Online Course

Rib Wort needs help he is inviting you to join him on his adventures by becoming a little Alchemist apprentice and knowledge keeper of the old ways.  He needs people just like you who will take the time to learn to speak with the plants so that you can hear and share their stories, benefits and medicines.

To learn to listen to the plants and hear what they are telling you is to enter into the web of life, to become in tune with the seasons and the magic of life that is all around us.

 “I really love the Little Alchemists’ Club it is what I was hoping there would be somewhere, as I’ve looked for a while!”

Learning about the plants on your doorstep is an amazing way to get adults and children to interact and engage in the natural environment.  It empowers both adults and children to learn about looking after themselves through herbal preparations and encourages them to try new foods by experiencing wild foods.  This course is an experiential hands-on course where we encourage you as a family or individual to get out walking in your garden, park, fields, hedgerows or woodland and experience the plants through all of your senses.  By focusing on plants using all of our senses we aim to make competent, safe foragers and medicine makers who care about and are thus willing to act as stewards of the natural land where they live.

“As you get a different plant each month its perfect as I feel I can take my time to get to know it properly and use different recipes and methods of making.”

The course is based around a downloadable booklet that you can take with you into the woods to learn about and meet the plants, this is supplemented with online videos.

The Little Alchemists Club online course will help you to get out there and meet some easy to recognise plants to start you off on your foraging journey and the foraging walks will introduce you to many edible plants.

“Now wood sorrel gets seen at 100m! Correighs loving finding all the common sorrel in the garden, we’ve been eating nettles in some form every day and anytime someone gets hurt they want to rub our bruise buster balm on or if we’re out they search for plantain.  I most definitely did not have this knowledge at 3 or 4 years old.”

During the course we are following the adventures of Rib Wort as he meets each of these plants:

• Plantain (Rib Wort himself)
• Elderflower
• Daisy, Chamomile, & Pineappleweed
• Bramble & Elderberry
• Nettles & Hazelnuts
• Wild Rose & Dandelion

“The little Alchemists’ Club online programme has definitely lit a fire for my girls knowledge of plants.”

There are 6 modules, each one contains the following:

• Stories
• Games
• Videos
• Downloadable booklet
• Activities
• Recipes
• Healing plant information
• Sensory Learning
• Basic botany

FAQ

You will have access for the life time of this site and you can download the booklets to take them with you when you are out and about, you will have access to videos and photos of the plants on the private webpage.

Disclaimer:

In undertaking this course you take full responsibility for everything that you make and eat.  I do not accept any liability for you eating the wrong thing.  If in doubt don’t eat it.  Make sure you know exactly what you are eating before you do so.

All course materials are copywritten to Rox Madeira please do not reproduce and use materials out with your household.

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